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Handel, Back, Monteverdi and Josquin

of Josquin in the manner in which one pair of voices appears to be pitted against another (Machlis 259). Claudio Monteverdis mus...

Folk and Jazz Influences Upon Igor Stravinsky's Compositions

In ten pages this research paper examines how jazz and folk music profoundly influenced this Russian composer as he works clearly ...

Classical versus Romantic Music and Meaning

like the painters and poets of this era, they subordinated emotional expression to an accepted standard of "rules" of form.2. Th...

German Composer Heinrich Schutz and His Music

In five pages this research paper considers the music of Heinrich Schutz, often regarded as the greatest 17th century German Baroq...

'Classical' and 'Pop' Gap That Was George Gershwin

a "serious" composer by the critics, they were extremely mindful that Gershwin did not orchestrate the first performance of Rhapso...

Sixteenth Century Keyboard Instruments

the strings.6 The tangents were inserted into the key levers at the lower end, and the top end was flattened for contact with the...

The Recorded Music Industry In The UK

There is an increased use of MP3 players, and new mobile phone models are entering the market which are capable of downloading mus...

The Minute Waltz by Frederic Chopin

grief for his homeland in the Revolutionary Etude (Machlis 82). Chopin arrived in Paris in 1831 and the majority of his musical c...

Musical Differences Between Classical and Romantic Eras

melodies.5 The Classical era artists deviated from this example, and their music was considerably simpler in texture. New genres w...

Art Music Composers and Jazz's Influence

the realm of art music during the course of his career, George Gershwin. While Stravinskys work shows the influence of jazz, it wa...

Twentieth Century Music, Various Aspects

This research paper/essay consists of two parts. The first half of the paper pertains to three works in which the composer turned ...

Baroque Music, An Overview

This essay presents an overview of the Baroque musical era. The writer talks about the features of the music, defines certain musi...

Music of Composer Ruth Crawford Seeger

that she was highly influenced by his style (Gaume, 1986). Additional influential composers on Crawfords development were Adolph W...

Syncretic Music

the accompaniment of the "Indian sitar, the rebab or bowed choraphone, the suling or bamboo flute, the gendang, kenong and saron o...

Chopin, Pianist & Teacher

pianists hand that the "music seems almost to play itself" (Machlis 84). Therefore, it is probably not surprising that so many o...

Trumpet Music and 20th Century Composer Karl King

fits with the spiritual title, it also has a slightly Spanish flavor that conjures visions of a sleepy town at sunset and an evoca...

Necessity of Music Education

disturbing since music has been shown to be important to child development "physically, emotionally, intellectually, socially and ...

Russian Ballet Music of Composer Peter Illich Tchaikovsky

In five pages this paper examines Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite and 'Swan Lake in terms of the musical creation and performance. ...

Charles Baudelaire's Poetry

In eight pages this paper examines the 20th century modernist influence wielded by the 19th century French poet Charles Baudelaire...

A Critique of A Tale of Two Cities

The first estate was comprised of the clergy, the second group was the nobles and the third was made of the rest of the people....

English Civil War and Blaming James I and Charles I

In five pages this essay considers what blame should James and Charles assume for the Civil War in England....

Hard Times by Charles Dickens and the Significance of Landscape

This analysis of Hard Times by Charles Dickens focuses upon landscape's significance in five pages....

Louis the Fourteenth Bureau Mazarin of the 18th Century

1700s ushered in the French stylistic period known as the "Regence" (Faniel 36). During this era, the writing table, or bureau in...

Literature Review on Change, Environment, and Culture

forces (Lewin, 1951). The position of an organisation, in this model, is always under some form of pressure to change. The way in ...

Charles Glatzer, Master Photographer

a greater aesthetic value (Sandler, 2002). The role photography would play in society is immense. Photography would be used to r...

Music of Mississippi John Hurt

December 21, 1928, was by far the most productive, as Hurt cut three spirituals and five blues works during this session (Obrecht)...

Utopia Views of the French Enlightenment

failure of the Catholic faith to suppress Copernicus. By the start of the...

Churches and the French Revolution

France. And, as Hines (1999) states, "You might say that bread was the fuel that fired the Revolution, for just about every major ...

Narration of Process: French Manicure

any other attention to details. After the hands and fingers are thoroughly prepared the individual will brush a boat of ba...

The Music of Mozart

Europe and, as a boy, Mozart gave concerts in all the major cities of Europe (Machlis 206). By the time he was thirteen, he had co...